Holocaust Education Kits
David Fishel Holocaust Remembrance Project featuring Minnesota Holocaust Survivor Kits
These kits are designed to walk students through the intimate history of a survivor’s experience. The collections includes four survivor stories, NEW short documentaries, curriculum, and a pictorial timelines tracing the history of the war, the history of the family and the history of anti-semitism in Minnesota.
Generously Supported by the Aronson Family Foundation with funds provided by the Estate of Harold and Violet Aronson, The Beverly Foundation, the Latarus Fund, and the Ackos Fund at the JCRC.
Kit Collection costs $300.00 and includes the following:
I Was Given Life Twice
Hinda Danziger Kibort was the embodiment of living history and someone who, though she experienced immeasurable suffering, never failed to find the good in people. She had the uncanny ability to make people understand that her journey through the Shoah made her stronger.
Theme: humanitarianism
In the Shadow of the Acropolis
This film reveals an ancient Jewish culture through the eyes of one Minnesota family that survived the Holocaust in Greece. Through testimony by the Ackos Family, this memoir tells the compelling story of how this culture was almost wiped off the map during World War II. It’s a story you have never heard before.
Theme: Holocaust in Greece
But Some Survive
Narrated by Esther’s grandson, this documentary follows Esther’s life from her happy childhood in Poland to the Lodz Ghetto and her imprisonment at Auschwitz. Woven with historical Lodz footage and images from the family’s return to Poland, this film illustrates Esther’s triumph as she begins to “live again”.
Theme: Lodz ghetto
Stolen Youth
Stolen Youth tells a history waiting to be told. Mr. David Fishel survived the horrors of working in Nazi Slave Labor camps. He came to America to start a new life and found the courage to sue the German companies that profited from slave labor.
Theme: slave labor camps
Springboard Discussion Starters (grades 7-12)
These discussion starters allow students to connect their own experiences with those of other people, past and present, as they consider touch questions related to individual worth, equality, identity, racism, personhood, survival, resilience, and forgiveness. They are designed as beginnings rather than endings: beginnings of conversations, beginnings of dialogue and debate, beginnings of empathizing and imagining. Supplemental curriculum included
Each survivor story coincides with a Minnesota family. Please call our speakers bureau at 612-338-7816 to have a member of one of the family’s speak at your school.
To order, e-mail laura@toleranceminnesota.org.